Good morning and Happy Easter, Canberra. It looks like being a sunny day today with a top of 18 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital. |
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Canberrans have had to turn to some outside-the-box methods to celebrate Easter during the coronavirus pandemic. |
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Canberra's sewage will be monitored for the presence of coronavirus to see if it is more prevalent in the territory than medical testing suggests. |
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When coronavirus caused her retail jobs to come to an abrupt end, ACT designer Kelli Donovan began sewing scrubs for doctors and nurses. |
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Introducing a new puppy in the time of social distancing can be fraught, but one expert has tips to avoid it becoming a long-term problem. |
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With a son who requires extra support at school, Lauren Ross is questioning her ability to keep his education on track in term two. |
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Hotel owners in the ACT have offered their facilities as isolation units to the ACT government as a way to keep the businesses afloat. |
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Subscriber only: The process which led to the removal of a contentious tree in Manuka does not imply corruption, it has been found. |
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Opinion: As an emergency dept. consultant, I believe people are still misunderstanding the dangers of COVID-19, writes David Caldicott. |
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Our local sports codes will look to re-ignite the cooperative spirit that emerged during the drought in 2006-07 to beat the virus crisis. |
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Let's forget the coronavirus for a second and soak up the joy of Melba couple Rita and Cornelis Besselink and their 70th wedding anniversary. |
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Canberra Raiders young gun Bailey Simonsson admits he's been going a bit stir crazy cooped up at home. But there may be some hope ahead. |
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| Times Past 'First orphan in Canberra from Vietnam' was a headline on the front page of The Canberra Times on this day in 1975. The piercing whine of aeroplane engines from Fairbairn RAAF Base during rehearsals of an air display was a familiar background sound for the first Vietnamese war orphan's arrival in Canberra. The little girl, Phan Thi-Hai, was met on the tarmac of Canberra Airport by her adoptive mother, Mrs Brigitta Wimmer of Garran, and paid little attention to the noise. READ MORE |
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